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April 2, 2015       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/world/middleeast/among-palestinians-discontent-with-abbas-grows.html?ref=middleeast

Palestinian Discontent with Abbas Is Growing

(New York Times) Diaa Hadid - There is growing discontent in Palestinian ranks focused on PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who celebrated his 80th birthday last week. "Internal problems - like the split [between the PA and Hamas in Gaza], and like the paralyzed political system, and a lack of elections - they are impediments also, for achieving the objective of independence and statehood," said Ghassan Khatib, vice president of Birzeit University in the West Bank. Abbas is a colorless leader in the 10th year of what was meant to have been a five-year term. He has failed to cultivate a successor and has systematically snuffed out any challenges to his rule.

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